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07dec2015: SAAF Saab Gripen intercepted crashed EA500 jet...

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Lack of oxygen :?: Cabin depressurasation :?:

http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=182065
Date: 07-DEC-2015
Time: 10:55
Type: Eclipse EA500
Owner/operator: Dixco Transport (Pty) Ltd
Registration: ZS-DKS
C/n / msn: 142
Fatalities: Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
A Gripen jet from the Test Flight and Development Centre based at Air Force Base Overberg near Bredasdorp was tasked to intercept the aircraft.

The Gripen was scrambled and came alongside the Eclipse within 15 minutes.

Despite further attempts to make contact with the aircraft, it continued to lose height at a rate of 3,700 fpm and It crashed in an open field south of Swellendam.
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Re: 07dec2015: SAAF Saab Gripen intercepted crashed EA500 je

Post by cyclingdutchman »

N2711H EA500 cn 0142 visited schiphol on 09-03-2009 on its way to south Afrika i think.

Adriaan.
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